You can try the html way to styling This used to work for me.
string ="<font color='#ff0000' > <b>hello</b> </font>" textview.setText(Html.fromHtml(string)) On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:17 AM, patbenatar <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry, bolding and italicizing is the extent of my text formatting > knowledge with Android. > > Anyone else know more about this? > > > > > > > On Apr 17, 5:33 am, Sebastian Müller <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks a lot for your answer. This works great for the Bold thing, but > > background isnt changing...do you know why?? > > > > my Code: > > > > if (index >= 0) { > > Spannable str = (Spannable) chapterResult.getText(); > > str.setSpan(new BackgroundColorSpan(0xFF0000), index, index + > > searchQuery.getAll().length(), Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE); > > str.setSpan(new StyleSpan(android.graphics.Typeface.BOLD), > index, > > index + searchQuery.getAll().length(), > Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE); > > > > } > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
